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Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbol
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols? |
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Wed, 01 Jan 2014 18:29:40 +0100 |
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Evans Winner <ego111@gmail.com> writes:
>> The only thing I can think of that I saw in other
>> languages and not in Lisp is *pattern matching*:
>> branching straight off the functions' heads, like it
>> is possible to do (and a very common practice) in
>> languages like Erlang, SML, and Haskell. But I
>> suppose it could be implemented as a Lisp macro if
>> you really cared for it.
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> For what it's worth, you might find Shen interesting
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> shenlanguage.org
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> From the "Shen in 15 Minutes" page:
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> (define factorial 0 -> 1 X -> (* X (factorial (- X
> 1))))
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, and that looks like a
mix of Lisp and Erlang.
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